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This can't-miss Denver attraction opened in April 2012, giving the state's historical society the opportunity to start from scratch and create new ways to experience Colorado history.

Through interactive and digital experiences, find out why Colorado’s eastern plains homestead communities inspired James Michener’s Centennial, what it felt like to descend down a mineshaft in search of silver in Silverton, how African-American Coloradans found a mountain escape all their own in the mid-1900s Lincoln Hills Resort near Black Hawk, how a 1915 wooden ski jump inspired generations of Olympic athletes from Steamboat Springs and much more.

New exhibits debut in phases, and the center’s status as a Smithsonian Affiliate ups its prestige and gives it additional resources, including access to Smithsonian collections and other programs that promise exciting things for the future.

The History Colorado Center in Denver, CO's Golden Triangle neighborhood

The building itself is another architectural jewel in Denver’s crown. Far from the somewhat dark spaces a block north that once housed the Colorado History Museum, which was demolished in 2010 to make room for the new Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center, the History Colorado Center is bright and welcoming.